Background
Bacon was born at St Bees near Whitehaven in Cumberland the son of William Bacon, a ship's captain trading in coal from that port to Ireland.
The family were said to be descended from Sir Nicholas Bacon (1540–1624); however, since very little is known about his ancestry and upbringing, the connection may be spurious or illegitimate. Nicholas Bacon was Member of Parliament for Beverley (1563–1567) and Suffolk (1572–1583) (as one of the two knights representing the county) and ancestor of the Bacon caronets. Sir Nicholas Bacon was the eldest (half) brother of Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Albans and Baron Verulam, and the eldest son of Nicholas Bacon (1509–1579), a prominent Elizabethan politician.
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